Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people’s data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there::Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
I think it might be time to advocate for individual ownership of our own ‘data’
I don’t see any good reason why our data isn’t protected under law and any attempt to monetize should be done through contracts to each person who’s data is being used and payments made to those people
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For those who keep parroting that poor big-tech has respect local cultures and laws, I remind you that atheists are literally considered terrorists in Saudi Arabia. So in theory, a court order could only invoke anti-terrorism as the motive and compel Google and Microsoft to handover private conversations of suspected atheists and these companies would say they did nothing wrong because they just complied with an anti-terrorism search warrant.
query@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not doing business in a country that is not your own is the easiest thing anyone can do.